Foinavon : the story of the Grand National's biggest upset
Owen, David2013
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It was the upset to end all upsets. On the 8th of April 1967, at Aintree racecourse, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase. Based on original interviews with scores of people who were at Aintree on that rainswept day, or whose lives were in some way touched by the shock result, this book will use the story of this extraordinary race to explore why the Grand National holds tens of millions of people spellbound, year after year, for ten minutes on a Saturday afternoon in early spring.
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Imprint:
London : Wisden Sports Writing, 2013.
Collation:
278 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408154755 (hbk)
Dewey class:
798.450929798.4509796.450929
Language:
English
BRN:
765491